Some Issues About Micro Oven vs. Wi-Fi

Do you know the fact that Microwave ovens and Wi-Fi hardware has got some connections? Surprised? Then know that the Wi-Fi hard wares and Microwave ovens send out signals in the similar broad-spectrum vicinity which is about 2.4GHz.

In a Wi-Fi, such a signal is used for the purpose of broadcasting data. On the other hand, the microwave utilizes such signal for cooking food. Preferably, 2.4 GHz, signal wave should have been used inside the microwave oven, but consistently some signal band leaks out. The reason is the microwaves give off that signal waves at an exceptionally higher power. Although, the level of seeping is awfully little, but the effect is more than enough for distorting the responsive equipments of a network.

For providing aid towards this there are several procedures present. The simplest among them is by separating the microwave signal waves from your network by sheer distance. The more they maintain a distance between each other, the lesser will be the interference between them. Although that sheer distance interference does get widened a lot further than you'd think. The distances can sometimes extend around 30 feet and even beyond that.

Such hindrance only takes place when the real running of the microwave signal takes place. So, in case, if this incident is just only a disturbance despite the fact that you're producing popcorn in your oven, maybe it is something that you will come across in your everyday life.

Other than the distance, another way of avoiding the hindrance is by upgrading the network equipments. The microwave ovens that are getting launched at recent times now offers lesser leakage radiation whereas the newer Wi-Fi gear, particularly the 802.11n, offers a better capability of handling the interference. Now the users can use their laptop, with the operating system like Windows Vista and Windows XP, as well as tickle their buds at the same time sitting in their kitchen.

Following the above methods if you are still facing the problem of interference of the signal then you have to follow the method that is discussed below:

·        Switch your Wi-Fi equipment to 802.11a as because the 802.11a Wi-Fi network is an old standard. This standard used to work within the bandwidth of 5GHz. This bandwidth is considerably time-consuming, but the 5 GHz bandwidth does not consist of interference issues that the other equipments of Wi-Fi had.

·        Also make a note of the fact that the microwaves are not the sole item that offers an operating signal of 2.4GHz. Even the wireless speakers, cordless phones, remote control toys and the baby monitors offer such signal band width.

Now you may come out with a question that is all these signal waves causes harm to your health? Frankly the signal wave 2.4 GHz is not something harmful like the radiation of nuclear. Even no medical reports have surfaced any studies of serious medical effects from leakage of microwave radiation. Though some study reports have said that with this microwave signal have resulted in cataracts but the amount that we use in our computer for the Wi-Fi is incredibly small and the Windows XP users or others have nothing to worry about.